Ananke Atheria

That’s okay too. Many of the settings suggested are left to the application to decide, so if that works for you then there is no reason to change things, the guide was posted for those who are interested in such things. Two settings are windows settings, the hardware accelerated GPU scheduling and the windowed optimizations and they are not on by default and so the application will not force these on. These will give in many use cases a performance gain and are worth considering for those people who are at all interested.

I understand the benefits to keeping the sync off, however I do so primarily for managing thermals. My blade never ran hot which for a slim gaming laptop is preferred over letting the GPU run full tilt. I am curious about why it would reduce Rez times in the Cool VL viewer in particular. I’ve found no difference between keeping threaded optimization on auto vs switching to on. I guess in both of these cases I think is left to user preference.

Hi Amelia, not all of the options will show in the driver settings for the 1080 but I used as many as I could. There shouldn’t be any special considerations beyond that for the 1080 vs the 1060. It revived my old Razer Blade for SL use up until I recently replaced it. Let me know how it goes.

The following settings have helped squeeze some extra performance out of Second Life. I had first tested this on a 2016 Razer Blade laptop using an external GTX 1080. The performance went from barely getting 22 frames to 60 (I set a frame cap) setting the graphics slider midway between high and ultra in Firestorm. Your mileage may vary but overall you should see a moderate boost to framerate with these settings. These are primarily for NVIDIA users running on recent drivers but some settings may be replicated on AMD GPUs. The settings at the end will work for both NVIDIA and AMD users. Under the NVIDIA Control Panel>Manage 3D settings: 3D Settings • Image sharpening: Turn this On. Set the sharpening level to 0.50 and the film grain to 0.17. • Ambient occlusion: Set this to Performance. • Antialiasing — FXAA: Turn this Off. • Antialiasing — gamma correction: Turn this On. • Antialiasing — mode: Set this to Application-controlled. • Antialiasing — transparency: Turn this Off. • Background application max frame rate: Turn this Off. • CUDA – GPUS: Set this to All. • DSR – Factors; DSR – Smoothness: Turn both of these Off. • Low latency mode: Turn this On. • Max frame rate: Turn this Off or synchronize it to your monitor’s refresh rate. • Monitor technology: Turn G-Sync On. • MFAA: Turn this Off. • OpenGL Rendering GPU: Pick your GPU from the dropdown menu and select it. • Power Management Mode: Select Prefer Maximum Performance. • Shader Cache: Turn this On. • Texture filtering — anisotropic sample optimization: Turn this On. • Texture filtering — negative LOD bias: Set this to Allow. • Texture filtering — quality: Set this to High Performance. • Texture filtering — trilinear optimization: Turn this On. • Threaded optimization: Set this to Auto. • Triple buffering: Turn this Off. • Vertical sync: Turn this Off. • Virtual reality pre-rendered frames: Set this to 1. • Configure surround, PhysX: Switch PhysX to the model of your GPU. Press Apply to save all changes. For NVIDIA (GTX 1000 and later) or AMD (5600 series or later): Under System>Display>Graphics>Change default graphics settings, toggle on Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling and Optimizations for windowed games.

Don’t believe the naysayers to the handheld devices. None have actually used a modern handheld to be credible with their opinions, which are based on using integrated graphics on a laptop cpu. I have the Legion Go which has the same core hardware as the ROG Ally, but with a bigger, higher resolution screen. My experience with the device for SL is really good. I run SL at 2560x1600 on high settings with advanced lighting on and shadows off and I get between 33 and 42 frames in Firestorm. The joycons can be used for movement and if you don’t want to bother with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard the onscreen keyboard can be detached from the taskbar and used as a keyboard for chat. The performance between a Legion Go and a ROG Ally are very close with the same settings in most other games so I would estimate your experience will be similar. Though I think the Legion Go with its bigger higher rez screen will be nicer. I love this device, and being able to take this on the go and still connect with friends in SL is nice. I also use a desktop with an i9 13900K 128gb and an RTX 4090 and a Legion Pro 5i laptop with an i9 13900HX 32gb and RTX 4060 for SL. Both devices obviously run circles around the little gaming handheld in every way except for portability. My desktop is easily 60lbs and tied to a desk, my laptop is 5 lbs, but the Legion Go is under 2 lbs. I am finding myself going to that when I am in bed or on the couch more than my laptop.